How do I disable autostart of Oculus software?

The autostart I am referring to is when you close the oculus program on your desktop and it instantly launches again. I have switched the services to manual via task manager and it worked until my PC was restarted. I doubled checked and they are still set to manual. Even stopping the programs via taskmanager they still relaunch! This should really be a setting in the oculus app and is one of the most stupid things I have even seen on a software. I should be able to close a program when not using. I am a Streamer and I don't want the extra drain on my PC. Oculus support if you see this please ask your devs to add this as a option in the settings to disable all autostarts. Thats why we have clickable shortcuts....

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The Oculus app should stay closed. The service still runs in the background, but the app itself does not need to be running. If it is, something is wrong with your system somewhere. I would recommend downloading the Oculus setup installer and choosing Repair. Be sure to NOT run as administrator.

v1.31 the exact same happening to me, this is after a complete uninstall and reinstall of the Software and nothing over the Rift HMD Sensor "thinking someones using it". The Home just starts up, I close it and it re-starts, this did not happen with v1.30.

I have tried altering the Windows Services for Oculus to MANUAL instead of AUTOMATIC but this now gives an Error when trying to start the Oculus Software manually@cybereality Is this a known issue with v1.31 or would you/Oculus like yet another Support Ticket? FYI this is a complete fresh installation and another Repair doesn't fix it, I'm getting really fed up with this update as you can probably imagine! Thanks

As above, the only time it re-starts for me (except that time when one beta broke something) is when the headset thinks it's being worn and normally because the VR cover I have has moved slightly covering the sensor.

Are ESSENTIAL services and cannot be disabled. They all depend on each other, at the moment.

I'm not trying to disable anything I just want to set the Programs as MANUAL so that Oculus Home starts when I want it too not when *it* wants it too, having to unplug the HDMI is not the solution to an ongoing issue that pre-v1.31 was working perfectly fine.

Are ESSENTIAL services and cannot be disabled. They all depend on each other, at the moment.

I'm not trying to disable anything I just want to set the Programs as MANUAL so that Oculus Home starts when I want it too not when *it* wants it too, having to unplug the HDMI is not the solution to an ongoing issue that pre-v1.31 was working perfectly fine.

Click on Windows, type "Services" + Enter, this opens the Services manager. Scroll down until you find Oculus Runtime VR Services, right click and choose Stop.This service has a startup of type Automatic. If you were to set it to Manual, no Oculus software will be loaded at startup. But then to use your Rift you will have to manually start this service. If need be, you can always create a batch (cmd) file for it.

Are ESSENTIAL services and cannot be disabled. They all depend on each other, at the moment.

I'm not trying to disable anything I just want to set the Programs as MANUAL so that Oculus Home starts when I want it too not when *it* wants it too, having to unplug the HDMI is not the solution to an ongoing issue that pre-v1.31 was working perfectly fine.

Click on Windows, type "Services" + Enter, this opens the Services manager. Scroll down until you find Oculus Runtime VR Services, right click and choose Stop.This service has a startup of type Automatic. If you were to set it to Manual, no Oculus software will be loaded at startup. But then to use your Rift you will have to manually start this service. If need be, you can always create a batch (cmd) file for it.

If you had read my posts above you would see that's exactly what I have been doing but it does not work with v1.31...I'm getting tired of repeating myself here.

Are ESSENTIAL services and cannot be disabled. They all depend on each other, at the moment.

I'm not trying to disable anything I just want to set the Programs as MANUAL so that Oculus Home starts when I want it too not when *it* wants it too, having to unplug the HDMI is not the solution to an ongoing issue that pre-v1.31 was working perfectly fine.

Click on Windows, type "Services" + Enter, this opens the Services manager. Scroll down until you find Oculus Runtime VR Services, right click and choose Stop.This service has a startup of type Automatic. If you were to set it to Manual, no Oculus software will be loaded at startup. But then to use your Rift you will have to manually start this service. If need be, you can always create a batch (cmd) file for it.

If you had read my posts above you would see that's exactly what I have been doing but it does not work with v1.31...I'm getting tired of repeating myself here.

I tried this with 1.31 and it works, meaning there is no longer any Oculus software running on your PC until you manually start the main Oculus Service. At that point you launch the Oculus Client and everything is back to normal. Close Client, stop the main service and the Oculus stack is gone again.

Are ESSENTIAL services and cannot be disabled. They all depend on each other, at the moment.

I'm not trying to disable anything I just want to set the Programs as MANUAL so that Oculus Home starts when I want it too not when *it* wants it too, having to unplug the HDMI is not the solution to an ongoing issue that pre-v1.31 was working perfectly fine.

Click on Windows, type "Services" + Enter, this opens the Services manager. Scroll down until you find Oculus Runtime VR Services, right click and choose Stop.This service has a startup of type Automatic. If you were to set it to Manual, no Oculus software will be loaded at startup. But then to use your Rift you will have to manually start this service. If need be, you can always create a batch (cmd) file for it.

If you had read my posts above you would see that's exactly what I have been doing but it does not work with v1.31...I'm getting tired of repeating myself here.

I tried this with 1.31 and it works, meaning there is no longer any Oculus software running on your PC until you manually start the main Oculus Service. At that point you launch the Oculus Client and everything is back to normal. Close Client, stop the main service and the Oculus stack is gone again.

Ok that does not work on my end, this is after a fresh installation and Repair.

I have the same issue, pre 1.31, I could just close the DT app and the light on the HMD would go to orange and that's it. Now the app is perpetually re-starting itself when I try to close it. The only way I can close the app is to power down the HMD. Has anyone found a solution to this annoying issue? Cheers, AussieStig

I guess I'll have to make a ticket regarding this issue as Oculus don't seem to frequent these forums bar the Moderators who are no doubt sending them messages but not being heard at all, the v1.31 update is a total mess and the silence from Oculus regarding the main issues is deafening.

Well at least your Rift is working, mine is totally black screen and DDU followed by fresh install of Nvidia 399 or latest 416 drivers does not fix the problem. I do have an amber and sometimes white light and I can hear sound and see that the tracking is working in games shown on monitor screen, just cannot play anything on the Rift.